Creating Panoramic Matte Painting Projections in Photoshop and Maya
Pluralsight
Course Summary
In this tutorial, we will create and project a panoramic matte painting. We will start by going over the process of understanding and working with panoramic matte paintings using camera projections. Software required: Maya 2012, Photoshop CS6, NUKE 6.3, PTGui 9.1.
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Course Description
In this tutorial, we will create and project a panoramic matte painting. We will start by going over the process of understanding and working with panoramic matte paintings using camera projections. We begin by shooting our plate, processing our images, stitching them with PtGui and building a simple custom camera rig using Maya and NUKE. With that we will create the required projections in the scene. Then we will model all of the geometry required, extract the elements, and setup a 3D scene inside NUKE. We continue by adding in various other objects and finishing with a cityscape. Over the whole tutorial we will take a look at many different tools and techniques used with Photoshop, Maya, PtGui & NUKE in a matte painting workflow, which can be used in your own personal projects. Software required: Maya 2012, Photoshop CS6, NUKE 6.3, PTGui 9.1.
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Course Syllabus
Introduction and Project Overview- 1m 1s
—Introduction and Project Overview 1m 1sCreating Panoramic Matte Painting Projections in Photoshop and Maya- 2h 42m
—Project Planning 3m 54s
—Mind Mapping 4m 25s
—Stitching the Panorama 5m 10s
—Setting up the Scene 10m 48s
—Setting up the Modeling Scene in Maya 11m 29s
—Creating the Modeling Material 4m 20s
—Modeling the Geometry for Plate Projections 10m 8s
—Overview of the Split Polygon Tool 1m 44s
—Continuing to Model the Plate Geometry 4m 37s
—Exporting the Geometry from Maya 8m 22s
—Starting to Refine the Projection Geometry 3m 44s
—Continuing to Refine the Geometry 9m 7s
—Maya's Rename Utility 1m 52s
—Organizing and Exporting the Plate Projections 2m 7s
—Extracting Plate Elements Using Layer Masks 7m 6s
—Channel Based Extractions in Photoshop 13m 43s
—Constructing the Side Railing 8m 46s
—Extracting the Bench Element 2m 35s
—Reviewing All the Plate Elements 3m 35s
—Building the Plate Projections 3m 11s
—Troubleshooting Projection Issues 3m 31s
—Starting to Prepare the Background 3m 12s
—Using Content Aware on the Background 1m 26s
—Using the Clone Stamp Tool 2m 42s
—Applying the Background in the Projection Scene 1m 27s
—Replacing the Cityscape on the Right Side 8m 26s
—Finishing to Replace the Cityscape 3m 31s
—Using Multiple Matte Painting Techniques 14m 44s
—Reviewing the Final Projection & Render 2m 45s
